# Conference: Ethnographies of higher education: researching and reflecting “at home” March 25, 2013 **Ethnographies of higher education: researching and reflecting “at home”** Prague, May 22-24 The conference programme board Jana Baćević (Central European University) Manja Klemenčič (Harvard University / University of Ljubljana) Jan Nespor (Ohio State University) Petr Pabian (University of Pardubice) Tereza Stöckelová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Preliminary programme Wednesday, May 22 Sort16,00 18,00 Registration 18,00 Opening of the conference 18,30 20,00 Keynote speech 1 - Susan Wright (Aarhus University) 20,00 Welcome drink Thursday, May 23 Sort8,30 9,30 Registration 9,30 10,30 Opening, keynote speech 2 – Wesley Shumar (Drexler University) 10,30 11,00 Coffee break 11,00 12,30 Section A1 Section B1 11,00 11,30 Dennis Beach: Changing higher education: Converging policy-packages and changing academic work in Sweden James M. DeVita, Allison Anders: Using Ethnography to Identify LGBTQ Advocates in Higher Education in the US 11,30 12,00 Yu-Hsuan Lin: How Many Points Do You Have? James M. DeVita: An Ethnographic Study of Gay Male College Students’ Facebook Profiles: Examining Methodological Considerations for Using Ethnographic Methods in Online Spaces 12,00 12,30 Tereza Stöckelová et al.: Struggles over and for “points”: Czech academics facing up to the metrics-based research evaluation system Allison Daniel Anders, Michelle Bryan: Teaching Critical Race Theory in the South: Autoethnography and Racial Justice 12,30 13,30 Lunch 13,30 15,30 Section A2 Section B2 13,30 14,00 John Taylor: Delivering epistemological turmoil. What can ethnography tell us about interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary researchers Ceres Karam Brum: Maison du Brésil: a student residence for the Brazilian elite in Paris 14,00 14,30 Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer: The performativity of emotions and affects in higher education: reconsidering the ethos of academic publishing Vicki Trowler: May the Subaltern Speak? Researching the Invisible "Other" in Higher Education 14,30 15,00 Duna Sabri: The production and consumption of student voice: Student evaluations teaching (SET) as social and political objects Katarina Kreceva: Towards Epistemology – reflexive interrelation between the topic, the methodology and the researcher 15,00 15,30 Cao, Yannan: A false prosperity?: an evaluation of Chinese higher education reforms and academics’ responses under state-dominated marketization Kamila Beňová: Research(er) at home: auto/ethnography of (my) PhD 15,30 16,00 Coffee break 16,00 18,00 Section A3 Section B3 16,00 16,30 Per Blenker & Sarah Robinson: Conflicting discourses and tensions in entrepreneurship education: An ethnography of entrepreneurship education politics and practice Karin Doolan: The importance of a critical ethnographic approach for uncovering injustices in higher education 16,30 17,00 Gregory Poole: Cultural debates surrounding university reform Lovise Haj Brade: 'It's all just completely normal to me' - Investigating middleclass privilege within higher education 17,00 17,30 Karel Šima et al.: Who needs a promotional university? Academic prestige and professional reputation in search of its “markets“ Irina Ilisei: How do Roma women in Romania make it into higher education? Analyze of the factors that influence access to higher education system of Roma women 17,30 18,00 Simon Smith et al.: The Czech ‘week of unrest’: the instrumentalisation of student protests by an academic oligarchy, or the elision of professional and organisational autonomy 19,00 Social dinner (optional) Friday, May 24 Sort10,00 12,00 Section A1 Section B1 10,00 10,30 Eve Stirling: “I study Facebook! Becoming a Facebook student. Exploring the insider view of student experience through Facebook Olivier Marty: Ethnography of education engineering. A question of distance 10,30 11,00 Katrine Scott: Comparisons of Everyday Student Life in a Transforming Post-Conflict Society Diana Judith Milstein, María Cecilia Carrera: "Native" and "Stranger". Relations and Positions in the Field of an Ethnographer in the University 11,00 11,30 Tereza Virtová et al.: If nobody likes rote learning, why is everybody doing it? Beyond the ‘approaches to learning’ Jagoda Gregulska: Ethnography of the unspoken 11,30 12,00 Petr Pabian et al.: Students cheat when they are cheated: understanding the interplay of students’ and teachers’ academic misconduct Torbjörn Friberg: Eric Wolf and higher education 12,00 13,00 Lunch 13,00 14,00 Keynote speech 3 – Paul Trowler (Lancaster University) 14,00 16,00 Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Patricia Sackville: Bottom-up educational leadership and policy-making through storytelling: language policy in practice at a Canadian institute David. M. Hoffman et al.: SELF-ETHNOGRAPHY, MOBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE HIGHER EDUCATION STUDIES: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS Marianne Blanchard: Yes we can? On some limits of an ethnographic study in higher education Desmond Ryan: If "...all ethnography is fictional", must all interpretation be creative? Thomas Koenig: Being an “Inside-Outsider” at the European Research Council for research Shân Wareing, Duna Sabri: Institutional research: symbiosis or oxymoron? 16,00 Closing of the conference Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)